Which TW0 scenarios best exemplify situational irony? -In Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” Madame Loisel spends her entire life in poverty, trying to repay the money for a diamond necklace that she lost, only to find out in the end that the necklace was fake.

-In Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Casque of Amontillado,” Fortunato says in the catacombs that he will not die of a cough, and Montresor replies, “True, true.” A little while later, Montresor kills Fortunato.

In Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony makes a speech against Brutus to the crowd to show them that Brutus is responsible for Caesar’s death. During the speech he keeps repeating, “Brutus is an honorable man.”

-In the ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, Oedipus’s parents decide to kill him at birth in an attempt to stop the fulfillment of a prophecy. According to the prophecy, Oedipus will grow up and kill his father. Oedipus survives and grows up with another family. However, through a tragic turn of events, Oedipus ends up killing a man that he does not know is his father.

-In Shakespeare’s play Othello, Iago acts as a mastermind and provides false proof of Desdemona’s unfaithfulness to Othello. Othello only trusts Iago and ends up killing Desdemona. It is only after he commits this misdeed that he finds out the truth.

Read the passage. excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting for" by senator elizabeth warren, april 17, 2014 i honestly can't believe that we're still arguing over equal pay in 2014. when i started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. women have made incredible strides since then. but 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work. women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they're taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg analyzed census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. that's not an accident; that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real, and they are long lasting. today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women. . for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by, and many families depend as much on mom's salary as they do on dad's, if not more. women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, and pay discrimination makes it that much harder for these families to stay afloat. women are ready to fight back against pay discrimination, but it's not easy. today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes. here in the senate, sen. barbara mikulski (d-md.) introduced the paycheck fairness act to give women the tools to combat wage discrimination. it would ensure that salary differences have something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because they are women. senator warren states that the effects of pay discrimination are long-lasting. is this a valid argument supported by accurate evidence? no; warren weakens her point by claiming that the paycheck fairness act would "give women the tools to combat wage discrimination." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women." no; warren weakens her point by noting, "today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes."